If the University system has little enough regard for its students to place them in a classroom with 200 peers, where the professor is TELEVISED in, where they don't have an opportunity to interact (or maybe even MEET) the professor, why is the professor surprised that the students didn't bother to do all their own work?
I've got two problems with this article.
1) The degree to which the papers are similar seems to have been totally ignored. If I find a clever turn of phrase in a textbook, it's entirely possible that it will turn up in a document I'm writing, maybe even for another class. What EXACTLY has been plagiarized? A sentence? A paragraph? An entire paper? I've used the word "the" enormous numbers of times, and I've never cited it once. I have no idea WHO I'd cite to begin with...
2) Using this as a last-minute "Gotcha" for graduating students is absolutely despicable. I'm not proposing that there should be a statute of limitations on academic dishonesty, but to tell a graduating senior "Oh yes, by the way, for the last three weeks of class you're going to have to defend your academic integrity by proving that you didn't cheat." How is this reasonable? What recourse does a student have? Why should the student have been allowed to enroll (and pay for) seven more semesters of school, after "plagiarizing" a Freshman physics paper? It seems to me that this is unjust.
Hell...I dunno...it just seems like an awfully stinky deal to me.
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OK somebody draw me a diagram and explain how my post is flamebait.
Since he's not going into orbit, he doesn't need orbital calculations. It's a sub-orbital ballistic shot, like Alan Shepard flew in 1962 (before John Glenn's orbital flight).
The HandEra 330 first tries to re-render the application on the fly with higher-resolution fonts. If that doesn't work, it can use some wacky 1.5x pixel "doubling" routine that will probably look awful. If THAT doesn't work, it can run the application "letterboxed". From what I understand, all three alternatives are selectable and configurable by the user.
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Stupidity? Laziness? That's a terrible mischaracterization of computer users.
Look...system administration SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY for the safe and reasonably secure operation of a computer. I don't have to be able to adjust the valve timing on my car to keep it from exploding! Yes, people ought to be able to install and update software on their computer. No, it should NOT be designed such that it REQUIRES a computer expert (like me) to operate it!
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. I worked at Origin Systems with one fellow who went on to great things at Ion Storm, and with another guy who's heading up Sony's Star Wars Ep1 MMORPG. Going in through QA doesn't substantially increase your odds of landing a design position. Being a good designer (that is, being able to communicate to somebody WHY one game is fun and another is not) is critical.
That's why I'm not doing it. : ) There's a whole lot of esoteric theory behind why games work, and I didn't feel motivated to learn it. People who did, are now very successful game designers.
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I concur. It also reads like the reviewers went to the store and bought the games...although I'm sure this isn't ALWAYS the case, it's nice that these are people like me who want to know what's worth dropping my cash on, rather than people who have to make advertisers happy by shilling the latest new stuff.
It might be an elaborately contrived ruse, but I've yet to play a game that rated well on GD that sucked.
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Decent coverage, although updates are sometimes sporadic. Oh, and they're British. So all you people who hate theregister because they talk funny...don't waste your time.
Good reviews, excellent demo archives...what else do you need?
You might like to think that, but since no "Linux ISPs" have such demonstrably evil business tactics, you might want to reconsider. Assuming you want the things you think to correllate well with observable phenomena.
Or you might be using a different approach to mentation. If so, lemme know how it goes.
Wonder? What makes you wonder? Sounds like they're on the same side they've ALWAYS been on...that is, not mine. Of the People, by the People, for the People...maybe we should change it to read "in the people, on the people, FUCK the people."
Semi-humorous aside: people sure is a funny word. Looking at it, it seems like it ought to describe some sort of unpleasant bodily function...
Yeah, that whole "innocent until proven guilty" schtick has been a thorn in law enforcement's side for a long time now, huh?
If I thought for a minute that there was any government on Earth that wouldn't do the same thing given the motive and opportunity, I'd move there tomorrow.
Ah. Good manager. Any idea where I could pick one of those up cheap? Usually, the manager has been the guy screaming "SHIP IT!" at the top of his lungs...
Your point is well taken, though. If everybody just did their damn job, the process would work fine!
I've been in software testing for longer than I'd like to admit. I've never figured out how to classify bugs that are very annoying to the user (misspelled dialog box, say) and stupidly easy to fix. Unfortunately, most of the programmers I've worked with don't even LOOK at Sev2 and 3 bugs...only the showstoppers. Yes, they're bad programmers and they're breaking the process, but hey...I've got to get the job done, right?
Any suggestions, other than make EVERYTHING a Sev1 issue and making the whole process useless?
There's a world of difference between throwing strange molecules into your bloodstream and banging on neurotransmitters, and projecting photons into your eye. You have probably had at least six or seven photons projected into your eye TODAY! Some weird people claim to be bombarded by billions and billions and billions of photons day in and day out, and they seem to be able to live almost normal lives.
How could an LED possibly work? You need to get a fine point of light projected on a spot 1-2" away. Anything other than a coherent light beam would just spread out and be useless.
Lemme get this straight. If the entire system were different, people would use it differently? You think?
DUH.
There is no lawsuit that I could go against the RIAA with a nearly 100% chance to win, even if I had an affidavit in my hand signed by God that says that the executive board eats babies before each meeting. The PURPOSE of the RIAA is to threaten legal action against people who they don't like...they're VERY good at it.
A retainer is a fee paid to a lawyer on a monthly basis. That lawyer then represents you at no additional charge per hour. (They're essentially contract labor instead of wage labor at that point). Contingency means that the lawyer will take the case, and only take a fee if they win it. It'd take a particularly stupid, or particularly cocky lawyer to take a contingency case against a well-prepared legal adversary. It'd be like assaulting a well-defended medieval fortress with a pogo stick and a slingshot. Yeah, you MIGHT win, but what are the odds?
But you WILL incur crippling legal expenses, even if you ARE right. That's why C&D letters are so popular nowadays. They cost nothing, and they're 90% as effective as a lawsuit...
That won't help. Say I go up against RIAA with a competent, reasonably priced lawyer. I incur legal expenses of $50,000, and she's going to be paid on a contingency basis (zero out-of-pocket cost to me unless I win. Fine.) RIAA comes to the table with five wickedly high-priced lawyers. They incur legal expenses of $2,000,000. My lawyer, outnumbered and outgunned, loses. I am now a wage slave. That's NOT a chance I'm willing to take.
The bottom line is that legal expenses, win or lose, are trivial for these large corporations, and disastrous for any but the wealthiest private citizen.
I can't believe Princeton nellied out on this one! That's what colleges are FOR...
I'm not necessarily arguing a point of law, it's more of a point of honor. Wagers are well-understood in many cultures, and in this case it seems clear that Mike proffered an arguably dishonest wager (a bet where he challenged people to do something that was not possible to do to his satisfaction). Somebody hoist Mike by his own petard. Good for Patrick.
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If the University system has little enough regard for its students to place them in a classroom with 200 peers, where the professor is TELEVISED in, where they don't have an opportunity to interact (or maybe even MEET) the professor, why is the professor surprised that the students didn't bother to do all their own work?
I've got two problems with this article.
1) The degree to which the papers are similar seems to have been totally ignored. If I find a clever turn of phrase in a textbook, it's entirely possible that it will turn up in a document I'm writing, maybe even for another class. What EXACTLY has been plagiarized? A sentence? A paragraph? An entire paper? I've used the word "the" enormous numbers of times, and I've never cited it once. I have no idea WHO I'd cite to begin with...
2) Using this as a last-minute "Gotcha" for graduating students is absolutely despicable. I'm not proposing that there should be a statute of limitations on academic dishonesty, but to tell a graduating senior "Oh yes, by the way, for the last three weeks of class you're going to have to defend your academic integrity by proving that you didn't cheat." How is this reasonable? What recourse does a student have? Why should the student have been allowed to enroll (and pay for) seven more semesters of school, after "plagiarizing" a Freshman physics paper? It seems to me that this is unjust.
Hell...I dunno...it just seems like an awfully stinky deal to me.
OK somebody draw me a diagram and explain how my post is flamebait.
Since he's not going into orbit, he doesn't need orbital calculations. It's a sub-orbital ballistic shot, like Alan Shepard flew in 1962 (before John Glenn's orbital flight).
The HandEra 330 first tries to re-render the application on the fly with higher-resolution fonts. If that doesn't work, it can use some wacky 1.5x pixel "doubling" routine that will probably look awful. If THAT doesn't work, it can run the application "letterboxed". From what I understand, all three alternatives are selectable and configurable by the user.
Stupidity? Laziness? That's a terrible mischaracterization of computer users.
Look...system administration SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY for the safe and reasonably secure operation of a computer. I don't have to be able to adjust the valve timing on my car to keep it from exploding! Yes, people ought to be able to install and update software on their computer. No, it should NOT be designed such that it REQUIRES a computer expert (like me) to operate it!
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. I worked at Origin Systems with one fellow who went on to great things at Ion Storm, and with another guy who's heading up Sony's Star Wars Ep1 MMORPG. Going in through QA doesn't substantially increase your odds of landing a design position. Being a good designer (that is, being able to communicate to somebody WHY one game is fun and another is not) is critical.
That's why I'm not doing it. : ) There's a whole lot of esoteric theory behind why games work, and I didn't feel motivated to learn it. People who did, are now very successful game designers.
I concur. It also reads like the reviewers went to the store and bought the games...although I'm sure this isn't ALWAYS the case, it's nice that these are people like me who want to know what's worth dropping my cash on, rather than people who have to make advertisers happy by shilling the latest new stuff.
It might be an elaborately contrived ruse, but I've yet to play a game that rated well on GD that sucked.
Decent coverage, although updates are sometimes sporadic. Oh, and they're British. So all you people who hate theregister because they talk funny...don't waste your time.
Good reviews, excellent demo archives...what else do you need?
*leaves troll lying dead under bridge*
Hmmm...your second paragraph seems to have WAY too many prepositions in it. You sure you're not stoned? : )
I rather like being clever. Far better than the alternative...which has been done to death by my fellowmen...
You might like to think that, but since no "Linux ISPs" have such demonstrably evil business tactics, you might want to reconsider. Assuming you want the things you think to correllate well with observable phenomena.
Or you might be using a different approach to mentation. If so, lemme know how it goes.
Spoken like a true luddite. The second time I tried to re-alphabetize my FiloFax, I snapped it shut and never opened it again.
Don't like it? Don't buy it. Quit crying about tools other people use to be productive. You just look silly.
Hmm...Kessel Company...I think Han Solo did some contract work for them a long time ago.
Wonder? What makes you wonder? Sounds like they're on the same side they've ALWAYS been on...that is, not mine. Of the People, by the People, for the People...maybe we should change it to read "in the people, on the people, FUCK the people."
Semi-humorous aside: people sure is a funny word. Looking at it, it seems like it ought to describe some sort of unpleasant bodily function...
Yeah, that whole "innocent until proven guilty" schtick has been a thorn in law enforcement's side for a long time now, huh?
If I thought for a minute that there was any government on Earth that wouldn't do the same thing given the motive and opportunity, I'd move there tomorrow.
If I could draw from petty cash to buy geeky toys, damn skippy I'm not gonna turn 'em over to no slack-ass programmer.
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He's always asking me how to install software and fix his computer anyway, so although his social skills are, uh, iffy, he's no geek.
Ah. Good manager. Any idea where I could pick one of those up cheap? Usually, the manager has been the guy screaming "SHIP IT!" at the top of his lungs...
Your point is well taken, though. If everybody just did their damn job, the process would work fine!
I've been in software testing for longer than I'd like to admit. I've never figured out how to classify bugs that are very annoying to the user (misspelled dialog box, say) and stupidly easy to fix. Unfortunately, most of the programmers I've worked with don't even LOOK at Sev2 and 3 bugs...only the showstoppers. Yes, they're bad programmers and they're breaking the process, but hey...I've got to get the job done, right?
Any suggestions, other than make EVERYTHING a Sev1 issue and making the whole process useless?
There's a world of difference between throwing strange molecules into your bloodstream and banging on neurotransmitters, and projecting photons into your eye. You have probably had at least six or seven photons projected into your eye TODAY! Some weird people claim to be bombarded by billions and billions and billions of photons day in and day out, and they seem to be able to live almost normal lives.
It's a photon, man...nothing scary here...
How could an LED possibly work? You need to get a fine point of light projected on a spot 1-2" away. Anything other than a coherent light beam would just spread out and be useless.
I'm out seven years of awful credit. Whoopee. Still a pretty bad deal, wot?
Lemme get this straight. If the entire system were different, people would use it differently? You think?
DUH.
There is no lawsuit that I could go against the RIAA with a nearly 100% chance to win, even if I had an affidavit in my hand signed by God that says that the executive board eats babies before each meeting. The PURPOSE of the RIAA is to threaten legal action against people who they don't like...they're VERY good at it.
A retainer is a fee paid to a lawyer on a monthly basis. That lawyer then represents you at no additional charge per hour. (They're essentially contract labor instead of wage labor at that point). Contingency means that the lawyer will take the case, and only take a fee if they win it. It'd take a particularly stupid, or particularly cocky lawyer to take a contingency case against a well-prepared legal adversary. It'd be like assaulting a well-defended medieval fortress with a pogo stick and a slingshot. Yeah, you MIGHT win, but what are the odds?
I can't attract a high-powered team, because I can't afford to pay their retainer. High powered legal teams almost never work on contingency.
But you WILL incur crippling legal expenses, even if you ARE right. That's why C&D letters are so popular nowadays. They cost nothing, and they're 90% as effective as a lawsuit...
That won't help. Say I go up against RIAA with a competent, reasonably priced lawyer. I incur legal expenses of $50,000, and she's going to be paid on a contingency basis (zero out-of-pocket cost to me unless I win. Fine.) RIAA comes to the table with five wickedly high-priced lawyers. They incur legal expenses of $2,000,000. My lawyer, outnumbered and outgunned, loses. I am now a wage slave. That's NOT a chance I'm willing to take.
The bottom line is that legal expenses, win or lose, are trivial for these large corporations, and disastrous for any but the wealthiest private citizen.
I can't believe Princeton nellied out on this one! That's what colleges are FOR...
I'm not necessarily arguing a point of law, it's more of a point of honor. Wagers are well-understood in many cultures, and in this case it seems clear that Mike proffered an arguably dishonest wager (a bet where he challenged people to do something that was not possible to do to his satisfaction). Somebody hoist Mike by his own petard. Good for Patrick.